remotion

plural remotions

1. countableuncountablebiologyBackward motion.

   By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.

   1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63

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   In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]

   2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, →ISBN, page 3326

2. countableespeciallyuncountablelargely obsoletehuman sciencesRemoval.

   The remotion of Cr3+ from the wastewater prevents its possible oxidation.

   2003, 2001. a Clay Odyssey, →ISBN, page 619

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   This act persuades me / That this remotion of the Duke and her / Is practice only.

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

   A syllogism disjunctive from the enumeration of the parts is that, in which from the remotion of all the parts the remotion of the whole is concluded.

   1847, Murray's Compendium of logic, with a corrected Latin text, page 155

   We may proceed from the remotion of the consequent to the remotion of the antecedent.

   1857, John Daniel Morell, Handbook of logic, page 51